What kind and how many fish do we have in our SPS tanks?

[dieselgrk]

any problems with the sohal picking on the other tank mates?

in my 120 with 30g sump
i have
sohal
blonde naso
yellow tang
pair of orange skunks

 

[dieselgrk]

in my 120:

1 pyramid butterfly
pair of piccassos
9 blue eyed cardinals
2 orange stripe cardinals
3 lyretail anthias
1 convict tang
and 1 sohal tang to tie together the white, black, blue, yellow, and orange colors of all the other fish together!.... gotta match right?

looking to add an archillis tang to the mix if i can actually find one at an LFS that eats!

 

[duecejt]

I have a 150 gal 5x2x2 as well as a 35 frag tank and a sump. So roughly 200 gallons of water. I do 40 gal water changes every two weeks to keep the nutrients low.I have had people that know their way around a reef tank come over lately and the first thing they say is wow do you run Zeo I can tell by the coral colors that you have low nutrients. I get great PE and have good growth. So I thought I will add more fish! Right now here is my list.

Chaoti leopard Wrasse
African Leopard
Black leopard
Standard leopard
Hawaiian flame wrasse
Yellow tang
Black Ocellaris
Yellow watchman
2- Pavatrosis Anthias
Misc Damsel
Frag tank has a Blue Lip Tang? Never seen it before so thats what I call it.
I want to add 5 Bartletts or Evensi Anthias and maybe a male Flame Wrasse

 

[teambutterfield]

95% SPS

Now lets start with the fish list

1. Watchman goby
2. Randle goby
3. Barred goby
4. Linear Blenny
5. Golden Blenny
6. Flame hawk
7. Longnose hawk
8. Regal Angel
9. Flame Angel
10. 3 x Blue Eye cardinal
11. 3 x Pajama cardinal
12. 2 x Female Flame Wrasse
13. 1 x Male Flame Wrasse
14. Pink Margin Wrasse
15. Orange back wrasse
16. Pylie wrasse
17. Yellow coris wrasse
18. Linatus wrasse
19. Labout wrasse
20. Exquisite wrasse
21. Tomoni Tang
22. Yellow Tang
23. Blue Tang
24. Sohol Tang
25. 2 x Barlet Anthias

 

[THP]

I have:

14 Green Chromis
1 Sixline wrasse

Intend to add a PBT and some other similar sized fish in my 180g.

Is that too much fish? The chromis make things busy but interesting

 

[old salty]

I have 3 fish in a 215g tank:


1 Chromis
1 Clownfish
1 YWG


That's it.

 

[jedi31]

95% SPS

Now lets start with the fish list

1. Watchman goby
2. Randle goby
3. Barred goby
4. Linear Blenny
5. Golden Blenny
6. Flame hawk
7. Longnose hawk
8. Regal Angel
9. Flame Angel
10. 3 x Blue Eye cardinal
11. 3 x Pajama cardinal
12. 2 x Female Flame Wrasse
13. 1 x Male Flame Wrasse
14. Pink Margin Wrasse
15. Orange back wrasse
16. Pylie wrasse
17. Yellow coris wrasse
18. Linatus wrasse
19. Labout wrasse
20. Exquisite wrasse
21. Tomoni Tang
22. Yellow Tang
23. Blue Tang
24. Sohol Tang
25. 2 x Barlet Anthias

Wow how big is your tank?

 

[teambutterfield]

Wow how big is your tank?

Tank is 225gal.

I actually forgot about my clowns and one butterfly. 4 of them.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

90/175

10 tangs
1 rabbit
3 butterflies
2 angels
4 clowns
2 damsels
1 dottyback
4 wrasses
1 hawkfish
2 gobies
1 basslet

 

[preef]

72g

1 Yellow Tang
1 Hepatus Tang
1 Tomato Clown
1 Ocellaris clown
1 Radiant Wrasse
1 Blue Throat Trigger
2 Dragonface pipefish
1 Green Spot Mandarin

 

[reefsic]

Interesting Thread!

I've got a 100g ULNS Zeovit Tank on 8x54w T5's, predominantly SPS. My Deep's are deep and my lights are pastel. SPS holds color, but again I dose fullblown Zeovit which includes Potassium, Iodine, Iron, AA etc. + Phyto/Rotifers/Cyclopeeze. Here's what I'm currently housing...

Mutlibar Angel (1)
Skunk Clown (2)
Blk Osc Clown (2)
Yellow Scopas (1)
Yellow Belly Tang (1)
Cleaner Wrasse (1)
Melanarus Wrasse (1)
Blue/Green Chromis (6)

 

[SDguy]

150g

2 blackspot swallowtail angels
2 percula clowns
2 pink skunk clowns
2 white tiger (gecko) gobies
3 lyretail anthias
3 barlett anthias
4 dispar anthias
1 carberryi anthias
1 twospot xmas wrasse
4 flame fairy wrasses
1 lubbocks fairy wrasse
1 midas blenny
1 powder blue tang
1 tomini tang


I dose about 30-40mL vodka per day.

Most acros look good in my tank. I've accepted certain acros will never look great with my bioload. I just don't keep those kinds


So about this...

I wonder how many fish and what kinds people keep in their SPS tanks? Are people still believing that the less fish the better?

Yes, compared to me, I still think less is better

 

[jimroth]

Wow how are those buterfly's with your SPS. It likes a lot of us take some chances with some possible coral nipping fish. I think I decided on the Bellus Angel.

Thanks

The copperband and YLN have been very good around the coral. I don't think they're adapted for polyp picking. They may taste an extended polyp now and then. Still, There are more things in heaven and earth, Than are dreamt of etc.

 

[lostanime]

We've got:
5"+ Yellow Belly Regal Angel
5"+ Yellow Tang
4"+ Purple Tang
2.5" Flame Angel
four 2" Percula Clowns
3" Cleaner Wrasse

and temporarily housing a 2-3" Picasso Trigger

polyp extension's been great for most of the corals, although the trigger has knocked blue tort, hawkins echinata, one of my tricolors and two caps clean off the rocks in the last 48 hours! The echinata and tort are a little ticked, and the tricolor nearly bleached. Let's just say I've already set back up one of my other tanks to house the Trigger until it's new owner picks it up!!

After the trigger has been gone for a while (and we also took out the yellow tang due to aggression and added an 11"-12" long hippo tang)... the blue torts and echinata seem VERY happy, and the tri-color that nearly bleached is full of color and bushy polyp extension again. No more triggers for me. We also tried a klein's butterfly to help with aiptasia but it exclusively ate SPS in my tank... wouldn't look at aiptasia :hmm3:

 

[psteeleb]

i love tangs chromis and anthias - tang poo is great food for some sps

 

[stephenrsaiz]

1 x foxface rabbitfish
1 x sailfin tang
1 x kole tang
1 x scopa's tang
1 x clown tang
1 x lunar wrasse
1 x five stripe wrasse
3 x blue green chromis
2 x clown fish
1 x royal gramma

The clown tang is my favorite.

 

[slojmn]

In a 120g Cube, 3' x 3' x 22"

2 ORA Picasso Clowns
2 Hawaiian Resplendent Hybrid Angels
1 Smallish Black Tang
1 Blackspot Foxface
1 Pacific Anthias
1 Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
1 Geometric Pygmy Hawkfish
1 Mandarin Dragonette

I run Zeo and feed fairly heavy. I figure I can add 3-4 more fish no problem. There is tons of swimming room. Tank will be eventually 90% SPS dominated, just stocking now .

30g Nano
2 Clownfish (1 picassoish/snowflakeish and 1 Percula)
1 Golden Blenny
1 Cardinal Bangaii

No Zeo, feed more sparingly and carefully in the nano.

 

[davez104]

In my 150G reef I have:

1 Royal Dottyback
1 Banana Wrasse (Canary Wrasse)
1 Scribbled Rabbitfish
1 Mimic Tang
1 Powder Blue Tang
1 Coral Banded Shrimp

This week I am adding 15 Chromis retrofasciata :thumbsup:

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